New Books Network Podcast

General History October 3, 2023

Extremely Online

The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

Taylor Lorenz

Hosted by Michael Vann

Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the internet—revealing how online influence and the creators who amass it have reshaped our world, online and off …

Women's History October 3, 2023

Yours, for Probably Always

Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949

Janet Somerville

Hosted by Jane Scimeca

Before email, when long distance telephone calls were difficult and expensive, people wrote letters, often several each day. Today, those letters provide an intimate and revealing look at the lives …

Peoples & Things October 2, 2023

Twenty Years After “The New Economy”

A Conversation with Doug Henwood

Doug Henwood

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

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Economic journalist and broadcaster Doug Henwood revisits his 2003 book, After the New Economy (New Press), with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. “The New Economy” was a catchphrase that became …

Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel September 23, 2023

The Engaged Scholar

Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today’s World

Andrew J. Hoffman

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel

Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact. Rigorous analysis of facts, the hard boundary between truth and opinion, and fidelity to reputable sources of factual information …

Academic Life September 14, 2023

The Other Side of the Desk

A Discussion with "The Conversation" Editor Emily Costello

Emily Costello

Hosted by Christina Gessler

How can writing for the general public help scholars to democratize education? Today, The Conversation editor Emily Costello takes us behind the scenes of a “typical” day at her editor’s …

Nordic Asia Podcast August 25, 2023

Journalism History in Macau: A Abelha da China in its 200 Years

A Conversation with Hugo Pinto

Hugo Pinto

Hosted by Joanne Kuai

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How did the first newspaper in Macau come into being? What was the first foreign language newspaper on Chinese soil about? How was the dynamic between the Chinese and Portuguese …

The Vault August 25, 2023

The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI

A Lecture by Betty Medsger

Betty Medsger

Hosted by New York Institute for the Humanities

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In this 2014 episode from the Institute’s Vault, we hear from Betty Medsger. Medsger was a Washington Post reporter in March 1971, and received a cache of stolen FBI files …

Women's History August 21, 2023

Undaunted

How Women Changed American Journalism

Brooke Kroeger

Hosted by Jane Scimeca

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Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism (Knopf, 2023) is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism's most valued work …

African American Studies August 20, 2023

Becoming Justice Thomas

A Discussion with Joel Anderson of Slate, Hang Up and Listen, and Slow Burn

Joel Anderson

Hosted by Adam McNeil

On today’s podcast, we are changing things up a bit. Instead of interviewing the author of a recent book, I am interviewing another podcaster about their recent narrative podcast season …

Military History August 4, 2023

The War Came To Us

Life and Death in Ukraine

Christopher Miller

Hosted by AJ Woodhams

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When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine just before dawn on 24 February 2022, it marked his latest and most overt attempt to brutally conquer …

Princeton UP Ideas Podcast August 1, 2023

24/7 Politics

Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News

Kathryn Cramer Brownell

Hosted by Mark Klobas

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As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens across the nation. Yet over the next three decades …

General History July 26, 2023

Hong Kong Media and Asia's Cold War

Po-Shek Fu

Hosted by Michael Vann

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British Hong Kong was a historical anomaly in the Cold War. It experienced no "hot war" or organized movement for independence, and yet it was a key battlefield of Asia's …

Critical Theory July 26, 2023

Imperiled Whiteness

How Hollywood and Media Make Race in "Postracial" America

Penelope Ingram

Hosted by Anna Lindner

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In Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in "Postracial" America (University Press of Mississippi, 2023), Penelope Ingram examines the role played by media in the resurgence of white …

Military History July 24, 2023

August in Kabul

America's Last Days in Afghanistan

Andrew Quilty

Hosted by Connor Christensen

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Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut publication offers a remarkable record of this historic moment. August in Kabul: America's …

Middle Eastern Studies July 22, 2023

Arabs in Turkish Political Cartoons, 1876-1950

National Self and Non-National Other

Ilkim Büke Okyar

Hosted by Reuben Silverman

The emergence of Turkish nationalism prior to World War I opened the way for various ethnic, religious, and cultural stereotypes to link the notion of the “Other” to the concept …

Anthropology July 17, 2023

Built from the Fire

The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street

Victor Luckerson

Hosted by Reighan Gillam

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When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to Greenwood, Tulsa, in 1914, his family joined a growing community on the cusp of becoming a national center of black life. But …

Critical Theory July 13, 2023

Radical Hospitality

American Policy, Media, and Immigration

Nour Halabi

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

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How should we understand contemporary migration policy? In Radical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration (Rutgers UP, 2022), Nour Halabi, an Interdisciplinary Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, explores this question …

Sociology July 11, 2023

The White Wall

How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America

Emily Flitter

Hosted by Nicole Trujillo-Pagan

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In 2018, Emily Flitter received a tip that Morgan Stanley had fired a Black employee without cause. Flitter had been searching for a way to investigate the deep-rooted racism in …

European Politics July 7, 2023

A Small, Stubborn Town

Life, Death and Defiance in Ukraine

Andrew Harding

Hosted by Tim Jones

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From 2-13 March 2022 - only a week into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine - Russian forces tried and failed to take and hold Voznesensk, a small but strategically important …

Critical Theory July 5, 2023

Believability

Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt

Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn C. Higgins

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

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Who is believed in our mediated world? In Believability: Sexual Violence, Media and the Politics of Doubt (Polity Press, 2023), Sarah Banet-Weiser, Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg …